cognition

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
2. (countable, uncountable) Children develop cognition rapidly in their early years.
3. (countable, uncountable) The study focused on animal cognition.
4. (countable, uncountable) human cognition
5. (countable, uncountable) social cognition
6. (countable, uncountable) cognition research
7. (countable) A result of a cognitive process.
8. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Knowledge; awareness.

Synonyms

understanding

knowledge

perception

noesis

knowing

realization

awareness

cognizance

sense

think

🤔

thinking

🤔

thought

💭

understand

mental powers

cogitation

gnosia

comprehension

consciousness

insight

intellect

ken

know

learning

Translations

cognición

Kognition

connaissance

γνώση

cognizione

cognition

cognição

Erkenntnis

conoscenza

cognició

bilme

Erkennung

idrak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: cognicion

In summary

From Middle English cognicion, cognicioun from Latin cognitio (“knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial”), from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere (“to know”), from co- (“together”) + *gnoscere, older form of noscere (“to know”); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur.